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To: Josef Stalin
I believe the South was goaded to secede to achieve that very end. Soon after the War the various amendments were passed and the States "voluntarily" ceded sovereignty to the central government.

You mean the 14th amendment, don't you Joe?

All you neo-rebs hate equal rights.

That's the basis for your whole hateful rant.

I said this the other day, and I think it an interpretation amply supported in the record.

The framers soft-pedaled the permanence and power of the Union. They euphemized it. That is why we are having this "discussion" now. Had they added language that said: "The states are absolutely subbservient" to the national union (although I refer you to the supremacy clause), that would have freaked people out. But we know that --enough people did adopt this view-- to preserve the Union. That view permeated the views of enough people so that when push came to shove, the slave power's revolution was thrown down.

Don't ya just hate it?

Walt

361 posted on 12/07/2002 10:07:14 PM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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